With Alzheimer's disease, there is this view that we are or will be a burden. There is a belief that my journey, my life, and my decline will become a burden to everyone around me and there is a narrative that rather than being that burden at some point in this disease, I should end my own life. This "tragedy narrative" dominates Alzheimer's disease.
I believe... there is an ultimate gift of love in that burden and the ultimate act of love is caring for someone through to the end of their life.
Click here to listen to a beautiful version of my poem "Us", in song.
I believe... there is an ultimate gift of love in that burden and the ultimate act of love is caring for someone through to the end of their life.
Click here to listen to a beautiful version of my poem "Us", in song.